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January 2

Some people were affected by a bug that caused Chroma Lab to use up all of their computers memory (RAM) causing it to crash or run really slowly.

It was most likely caused by a recent SteamVR update breaking my adaptive resolution/quality implementation in Chroma Lab.

I have updated Chroma Lab to disable adaptive resolution which appears to have fixed the issue. The down side is there may be a small loss in image quality/sharpness and you may occasionally have more dropped frames. The differences should be very small and likely not noticable.

I have also re-enabled the interactive walls during gameplay as I had accidentally disabled them during the previous update.

Reviews

“Chroma Lab is a mesmerising particle simulation and a simple but stunning VR showcase”Road to VR

“Chroma Lab is very simple in set up, flawless in execution and really a blast to play with.”8/10 – The VR grid

About This Game

A colorful fluid simulation to play with in VR.

Chroma Lab is based around a high performance, custom particle physics engine that utilises the vast computing power of modern GPUs to calculate billions of individual forces per second between the particles, necessary for them to interact with each other and behave like a fluid.

There is a variety of tools to interact with the particles as well as a well featured options menu that allows you to customise the visuals, physics and save/load scenes.

Key features

Beautiful, psychedelic visuals

Particles react to your music (any external music player is compatible, may not work with Bluetooth headphones)

Tools to pick up, hit, pull, explode, shoot and paint the particles

Placeable force spheres which can also teleport the particles between one another

Save and load the particles and settings, included are a few presets to get started with

Adjustable physics settings to change how the particles behave

Multiple different particle shaders, color pallets and other graphics settings to choose from

Throw blobs into orbit and create black holes

Optional gravity and "lava lamp" modes

Freeze the simulation or slow time to a crawl

Great as first experience for people new to VR - intuitive controls and presets can be chosen outside of VR

MixCast support for easy, high quality mixed reality

Native Oculus SDK support for Rift and Touch users

Number of particles can be automatically determined based on computer speed or manually adjusted

Scale and bounding walls can be adjusted allowing Chroma Lab to be played from sitting to room scale

Beta tester quotes after playing Chroma Lab

"okay - gorgeous, just gorgeous! love how well it performs :)"

"I really need to sleep now, even if my dreams will not offer me the delight just spent in Chroma Lab."

"it is absolutely fantastic and probably one of the most beautiful experience I have had in VR so far"